BTHE Administration & Instructors

Alicia Estes — Director, Drama, English, and Public Speaking

Alicia Estes has teaching experience at both the middle school and high school levels. She graduated from Bob Jones University in 2000 with a B.S. in English Education and a minor in Interpretative Speech and in 2004 with a M.Ed. in Secondary Education specializing in English.

Her experience in the classroom has been at Germantown Public High School (WI), Suburban Christian School (IN), and Burge Terrace Home Educators. She has directed multiple dramas and musicals and runs an elementary drama camp.

She and her husband work as youth sponsors with the Burge Terrace Youth group where the Lord has continued to grow her love for teenagers. Alicia also homeschools her own three children.

Todd Curtis, Senior Pastor — Bible Doctrines

Todd’s parents faithfully modeled and instilled in him the truths of God’s Word, and he personally trusted Jesus Christ as his Savior at the age of nine. He attended Bob Jones University where he completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in Bible and pastoral ministry.

Todd has served on the pastoral staff at Burge Terrace since 2000, and became the lead pastor in June of 2010. Todd seeks to faithfully and accurately preach God’s Word to help us learn and live the gospel, and he has a passion to give the gospel of Jesus Christ out of a heart of love for all Christ has done for us!

Melissa Alexander has close to 40 years of contact/experience with the deaf community and American Sign Language (ASL).

It was once said, “a deaf person’s greatest treasure was a hearing friend”. Melissa was in junior high when her family moved into an apartment complex where a deaf girl lived. Befriending the girl, Melissa learned how to fingerspell the alphabet and learn basic words. Melissa attended Tennessee Temple University which had a deaf school within the university, thus all chapels, student body meetings, and church services were interpreted for deaf students. She was exposed over and over to ASL & began learning more through interaction with deaf students.

Melissa made several deaf friends, took some beginning sign language classes, and began accompanying deaf students to the infirmary & doctors’ offices to interpret for them. She continues to use her abilities whenever possible and would love the opportunity to share her knowledge with young people and see them come to love the beauty of the “silent” language.

Debbye Biermann — Art

Debbye is a native of Indianapolis and was home-schooled throughout her educational years in Indiana and Kenya, East Africa. She graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University in April, 2006 with a BS in Art Education. She taught painting and drawing for one year at Zionsville Community High School. She has been teaching at Northpoint since 2007. She has always loved art and is very excited she can use it in her career. Debbye has had a chance to travel many places in the world including South America, Europe, Japan, and mostly Kenya, Africa. Through her experiences, she has learned more about the Almighty God, art, different cultures, and the value of education. Mrs. Biermann is very excited to be working with the home school community! Debbye and her husband, Aaron- a graphic designer, have 4 sons and live in Fishers.

Daniel Coblentz — PE (Physical Education)

Daniel Coblentz is a World Certified 8th Degree Black Belt in the art of Taekwondo. He has been teaching since 1985 and is also an Ordained Minister of the Gospel since 1998.

Kerri Dilling — Elementary Choir (3rd-6th grade)

Kerri Dilling earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Voice Performance from Maranatha Baptist University. Having developed a love for music at an early age, her desire going into college was to learn the pedagogical side of singing so that she could help others cultivate that same love with sustainable results. Her experience of teaching private voice lessons goes back to her college days, and the music classes as well as the voice pedagogy classes she took have allowed her to successfully teach elementary choir for three years.

Kerri’s passion in teaching elementary students in a choir setting is for the students to learn proper vocal technique. First, when an elementary aged child learns to sing correctly, he is learning a skill that can take his talent to its full potential and be sustainable for the rest of his life, rather than damaging his vocal chords and never being able to come to the full potential he has. Second, proper vocal technique is extremely important to the overall sound and tone of the choir. Many people have low expectations when it comes to what an elementary choir can sound like, but Kerri believes and has experienced first hand that an elementary choir can rise to the level that you expect from them, and an important part of that is teaching how to get that sound and tone.

Kerri’s goal is to teach children the joy that can come from making beautiful music and to ignite within them their own love for singing and music.

Sherry Hill — Kindermusik

Sherry’s love for music led her to pursue a career in teaching music. Sherry graduated cum laude from Southwest Baptist University with a bachelor’s degree in Music Education, K-12, Instrumental and Vocal. She has taught in the Indianapolis Public and Wayne Township School systems. She has been blessed to teach at Southport Presbyterian School and Burge Terrace Christian School.

Currently, Sherry teaches Kindermusik and private piano for Burge Terrace Christian School, Burge Terrace Home Educators, in her private studio, as well as accompanying the Burge Terrace Christian School choir.

Her passion is to honor the Lord through teaching music and inspire children to discover the joys of music.

In 1996 Sherry married her husband, Tim, and they have four children.

Josh and Erica Johnson — Robotics

Josh holds a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from Bob Jones University and a Masters of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IUPUI. He is currently employed at Viavi Solutions as a Hardware Engineer, designing, testing and sometimes programming circuit boards. His fascination with robotics stems from the unique blend of engineering disciplines it offers, combining electrical, mechanical, computer, software, and systems engineering into a single package. His role on the robotics team is to help teach engineering concepts required to create the robots. His goal is to help students to appreciate engineering and inspire them to become engineers themselves.

Erica holds a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from Bob Jones University. She is currently employed at PTS Diagnostics as a Quality Control Specialist, investigating customer complaints. While she is relatively new to the world of robotics, Erica is a master of proper scientific discipline. Her role on the robotics team is to promote/enforce good lab practices such as documentation, safety, and researched decision making. She turns the robot club from a mad-house into an efficient laboratory of robotics development! Her goal is to help students appreciate science and inspire them to become scientists themselves.

Jon Streeter — Geography and History

Jon Streeter was born and raised in Indianapolis and was active in his local community throughout his high school years. A member of Castleview Baptist Church since 2008, he was involved in the youth ministry for many years and has developed a passion for youth education. He attended Hillsdale College and Oxford University with degrees in History, Political Science and Economics. He also holds a Master’s Degree in History from Indiana University.

Since 2006 he has taught at Northpoint Homeschool Classes with classes in American and World History, Government, Economics and Debate. He also runs a private tutoring program at Fishers Library for students in Military History and German. In what little free time he has, he runs a travel company called AET, which organizes educational trips in the United States and Europe and raises money to allow underprivileged high school students the opportunity to travel and “walk in the footsteps of history”.

Denise Wilson — BizTown and Mathematics

Denise Wilson graduated from Marian College in 1997 with a B.A. in Mathematics (Secondary Education) with an endorsement in Middle School Education. She has taught for a total of 9 years at two Christian schools, Indianapolis Baptist School (2 years) and Baptist Academy (7 years).

She and her husband are very active in their church, her husband being the Music Director and preaching when called upon, and Denise being the church pianist and a Sunday School teacher, as well as taking care of several church secretarial responsibilities.

Denise left teaching school when she had her first child and now enjoys her home school journey.